Worlds Asunder (Paperback)

Edward "Chase" Morgan, NASA's accident investigator at Lunar Alpha
Base, plans an uneventful retirement-until the crash of the
Stellarfare Phoenix kills the United States Secretary of Energy and
turns Chase's last case into a fight to avert war. Evidence of
deliberate sabotage and Chinese government involvement suggest that
this is the first in a series of political moves designed to
undermine America's interplanetary clout. Events escalate as both
sides break decades-old treaties. But when Chase learns that
someone fabricated the evidence, he suspects conspiracy. Now he
must find proof before the expanding crisis tears all of the
colonized worlds asunder.